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Cleaner Start Page for “Add Plugins” (Installer)

A LARGE search box to find plugins for installing more easily and way faster.

No clutter. The regular content of the “Featured” tab was removed: not the 6 same old plugin cards cards any longer and no useless tag cloud anymore!

Plus: set the number of displayed plugin cards per page via “Screen Options” tab (on top right corner).

Scratching My Own Itch

As of WordPress 4.0+, going to “Add Plugins” page and being welcomed by always the same old 6 featured plugin cards annoyed me big time! So I thought on how to change this default behavior. Due to WordPress’ genius Hooks & Filter functionality I could easily tweak this via my plugin.

Now it starts with what should have been the default (in my opinion) from the beginning: a large and nice plugin search box – because that’s what I do all the day :). Side benefit: better performance as no external plugin card content has to be loaded!

And there you have it, a one-purpose admin helper plugin aiming at (super) administrators and webmasters searching for and installing plugins from WordPress.org repository on a daily basis.

Translations

For custom and update-secure language files please upload them to /wp-content/languages/cleaner-plugin-installer/ (just create this folder) – This enables you to use fully custom translations that won’t be overridden on plugin updates. Also, complete custom English wording is possible with that as well, just use a language file like cleaner-plugin-installer-en_US.mo/.po to achieve that.

Note: All my plugins are internationalized/ translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating and validating I recommend the “Poedit Editor”, which works fine on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Idea Behind / Philosophy

As of WordPress 4.0+ the new plugin installer start page was annoying me. By scratching my own itch here I came up with this plugin ;-). I hope you enjoy it as much as I do :).

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Categorized : Plugin are listed by category and subcategory based on functionality and uses. Here you can browse wordpress plugin from our neatly categorized plugin directory and sort the plugins by rating, votes, last updated and published and search plugins using tags.

Search : Plugins can be searched by their functionality using multi-tag search and you can search plugins using their exact name although we are not ensuring Google like search accuracy.

Create Plugin Lists : You will be able to create list of plugins and share them with Wordpress Community or you can keep them private and use them as a bookmarks.
e.g. Plugins That I’ve Used on My Site, Best Event Management Plugins, Christmas Plugins etc.

If you think certain awesome plugin is not in the directory then notify us through our Submit a Plugin page.

Browsing the Plugin Directory

Browse by Category

In WPD, Plugins are categorized carefully. You can browse all the categories from the homepage or you can access the category lists from any page by clicking the button from the left of the website.

Browse by Tags

Each plugin listed in WPD is marked with useful tags. You can browse plugins by Tags from the All Tags page

Searching in WPD

Multi Tag Search

You can search plugins using multiple tags. To perform a multi-tag search. Go to Homepage and then in the search field type any keywords or tags(comma separated) and then click on the search button. To search plugins from a selected category just select the category from the dropdown and type your tags.

Searching a specific Plugin in WPD

If you want to find a specific plugin in our directory, Go to Homepage and then select the "Search in Title" option. Then write the name of the plugin and click the search button to find the Plugin.

Plugin Lists

Whats a Plugin List

Plugin Lists are user created lists of plugins. Any registered users can create Plugin Lists and share it with anyone or make it private.

Why Create a plugin List?

Easy to keep track of your favourite and useful plugin.

Share list of plugins on blogs, social media or to a client.

Keep a track of what plugins you installed in which of your blogs by creating a list for each blog

Creating a Plugin List

To create a Plugin List, click the button from the left of the page; a popup box will appear. In the "List Name" field, put the name of the List. eg: Best Seo plugins for your site.
In the Description field, put a few words describing the List.
By default, lists are automatically published as public, which is visible to everyone. If you do not want others to see the List, select "Private" from the dropdown list. Then click the "Create List" button to create the list.

Adding Plugins to your List

To add a plugin to your List, go to a plugin page and click the "Add to List" button. A popup box will appear where you can select in which of your list you want to add this plugin. You can add a note if you want, this note will appear below the plugin in your list.
P.S: You can only add plugins that are in our directory.

Your Lists will appear in our "Plugin Lists" page when you set the list as "Public" and your list contains atleast 2 plugins.

Editing your Lists

When you are on your list page, notice there is a button on the top right corner of the page. Click it to edit the List Name and the List Description.

Accessing All your Lists

You can access all your Plugin lists by going to your profile and clicking the "Lists" tab.

Removing your Lists

You can remove your Plugin lists by going to your profile and clicking the "Lists" tab. on top right of each list click the button to remove the list completely.

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